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This ethnography depicts the cultural consequences of a local school closing in a small, rural, predominantly black community. It shows how the dynamics of the community deepen fundamental contradictions between strong beliefs in education (values spoken) and actual conduct (values lived).
343 kr
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This text argues that difficult problems can not be solved without a democratic process. Essential to the resolution of such problems is a reconstructed school that prepares students to become effective problem solvers and informed, responsible democratic citizens.
421 kr
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In the USA, the Comer programme assists underachieving urban schools by examining their system and their students. The implications of the successes reported in this volume show that children from all backgrounds can gain vital social and academic skills when education addresses their needs.
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This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.
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This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.
447 kr
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This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardize testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education and the eventual decline of these reform efforts.
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This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardize testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education and the eventual decline of these reform efforts.
Wayside Attractions
The Negotiations of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School
Inbunden, Engelska, 2003
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This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.
Wayside Attractions
The Negotiations of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.
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This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they addressed? Through the voices of students, educators, and scholars, this book offers a model for communities hoping to create and sustain an education worth having.
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This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they addressed? Through the voices of students, educators, and scholars, this book offers a model for communities hoping to create and sustain an education worth having.
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Best of That World
Historically Black High Schools and the Crisis of Segregation in a Southern Metropolis
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
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This book chronicles the history, the closing, and what some see as the restoration of historically black high schools from the voices of civil rights activists, community leaders, alumni, teachers, and other involved and affected by the desegregation process. A major theme is the power White privilege has in shaping policies purportedly designed to extend educational opportunities of African-American children. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the book exposes how desegregation policy discriminated against African Americans and how they pursued desegregation, as one of many strategies, including institution building in the community, to obtain equal educational opportunities.
Best of That World
Historically Black High Schools and the Crisis of Segregation in a Southern Metropolis
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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This book chronicles the history, the closing, and what some see as the restoration of historically black high schools from the voices of civil rights activists, community leaders, alumni, teachers, and other involved and affected by the desegregation process. A major theme is the power White privilege has in shaping policies purportedly designed to extend educational opportunities of African-American children. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the book exposes how desegregation policy discriminated against African Americans and how they pursued desegregation, as one of many strategies, including institution building in the community, to obtain equal educational opportunities.
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This teacher narrative draws on several years of teaching children and adolescents who are deemed severe emotionally disordered by the public school system. The stories told in this volume are written as a means inquiry into constraints and possibilities of working meaningfully with students who are often resistant and untrusting. The book provides a multilayered contextual analysis into the politics of difference and how they are played out in four public schools over eight years. Because the narrative evolves out of life in the classroom, it broaches a broad range of topics from violence to curriculum, from fear to love.
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This teacher narrative draws on several years of teaching children and adolescents who are deemed severe emotionally disordered by the public school system. The stories told in this volume are written as a means inquiry into constraints and possibilities of working meaningfully with students who are often resistant and untrusting. The book provides a multilayered contextual analysis into the politics of difference and how they are played out in four public schools over eight years. Because the narrative evolves out of life in the classroom, it broaches a broad range of topics from violence to curriculum, from fear to love.
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This book brings together some of the foremost ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. The first chapter provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of high school reform. Each of the following chapters describes a whole-school model of reform, providing a brief history of the model, its principles, a description of the model's implementation in specific schools, and a summary of impact. The final chapter considers whether significant and widespread reform of the traditional high school is possible. Some of the main ideas for revisioning high school are summarized and key factors affecting successful implementation of reform are described. The important role of teacher education in high school reform is also considered. Finally, a list of pertinent questions considering whether reform of high school is possible is presented.
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This book brings together some of the foremost ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. The first chapter provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of high school reform. Each of the following chapters describes a whole-school model of reform, providing a brief history of the model, its principles, a description of the model's implementation in specific schools, and a summary of impact. The final chapter considers whether significant and widespread reform of the traditional high school is possible. Some of the main ideas for revisioning high school are summarized and key factors affecting successful implementation of reform are described. The important role of teacher education in high school reform is also considered. Finally, a list of pertinent questions considering whether reform of high school is possible is presented.
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Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.
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Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.
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The good news is that information is back in vogue, especially the education of students of colour attending schools in metropolitan areas. The bad news is that there remains little consensus about how best to improve the education of these students marginalised by the current theory and practice of schooling.It is evident that the current practice of schooling is failing to provide those traditionally marginalised with opportunities to succeed when compared with their more privileged peers. This suggests that we need to rethink out theorising about the practice of education. Unless we do this intellectual work, the very foundations of democracy will be compromised. The importance of this book, which takes as international perspective, is that it contributes to framing this urgently needed intellectual work by interrogating a range of schooling experiences designed to assist marginalised students experience success rather than failure in school.
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The good news is that information is back in vogue, especially the education of students of colour attending schools in metropolitan areas. The bad news is that there remains little consensus about how best to improve the education of these students marginalised by the current theory and practice of schooling.It is evident that the current practice of schooling is failing to provide those traditionally marginalised with opportunities to succeed when compared with their more privileged peers. This suggests that we need to rethink out theorising about the practice of education. Unless we do this intellectual work, the very foundations of democracy will be compromised. The importance of this book, which takes as international perspective, is that it contributes to framing this urgently needed intellectual work by interrogating a range of schooling experiences designed to assist marginalised students experience success rather than failure in school.
Taming Reform
Reinventing Government Yields to ""Business As Usual"" for Young Children
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
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Smart Start, North Carolina's early childhood initiative, was enacted in 1992 by the North Carolina General Assembly to great fanfare and accolades as well as political turmoil. The chapters in this book trace the history of Smart Start and report on qualitative studies conducted between 1993 and 2001. Collectively, the chapters tell the story of innovative early efforts to redesign the early childhood system by ""reinventing government"" through public-private partnerships, and how, over time, Smart Start was ""tamed"" into submission to become little more than just another bureaucratic government program, to ""business as usual.""
Taming Reform
Reinventing Government Yields to ""Business As Usual"" for Young Children
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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Smart Start, North Carolina's early childhood initiative, was enacted in 1992 by the North Carolina General Assembly to great fanfare and accolades as well as political turmoil. The chapters in this book trace the history of Smart Start and report on qualitative studies conducted between 1993 and 2001. Collectively, the chapters tell the story of innovative early efforts to redesign the early childhood system by ""reinventing government"" through public-private partnerships, and how, over time, Smart Start was ""tamed"" into submission to become little more than just another bureaucratic government program, to ""business as usual.""
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In today's post-modern and post-traditional institutions, power is mainly exercised through the generation of consent, through the distribution of ideologies and through the subtle indoctrination of self-disciplining practices, rather than through the use of force or brute authority. This change in the nature of institutional practices focuses the role that language has always had in the exercise of power. To address the topic as it affects educational organisations, the editor combines two central traditions in contemporary social science inquiry; concern for the post-modern and post-positivist condition of the contemporary world; and concern for the praxis of critical theory. Contributors to the book's 14 chapters approach their topics from either or both of these traditions. In his introductions to the two parts of the book, the editor suggests how these traditions can combine and at the same time respond to the challenges of educational concerns within the post-modern condition. This book's style and content should appeal to students and researchers in educational research, curriculum studies, policy studies and educational administration. The authors are all noted for their contributions to the analysis of discourse and its power coordinates. They will introduce some readers to new worlds - the worlds of teacher supervision, female leadership, critical language awareness, the signing deaf and minority outgroups.